| Description |
1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Politics and Post-colonial Theory: African inflections; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Post-colonialism, post-structuralism and postmodernism; Post-colonialism and Africa; Post-colonialism beyond literary studies; Scope and organisation; 1 'Negritude and nativism': In search of identity; Senghor's negritude; Césaire's negritude; Critiques of negritude; Conclusion; 2 Decolonisation and national liberation; Frantz Fanon: the oppressed consciousness of the colonised; Edward Said and resistance; Fanon and Said: a strategy towards liberation; Conclusion |
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3 Modernity and the problem of the nation-stateThe crisis of the African state; African studies and the conceptualisation of the African state; Post-colonialism, modernity and the African state; Conclusion; 4 Striving for democratisation: The complexities of civil society and human rights; The rise of authoritarian rule; African perspectives on 'good governance'; The centrality of civil society; Human rights in Africa; The African Charter of Rights; Conclusion; 5 Citizenship, subjectivity and the crisis of modernity; Citizen and subject: the argument; Problems with the Mamdani thesis |
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The complexities of citizenship and subjectivityCitizenship and subjectivity: post-colonial reflections; Conclusion; 6 Globalisation and post-colonialism: Towards the reconstitution of identity; Culture and globalisation; Post-colonialism and globalisation; Globalisation and inflections; Conclusion; 7 Afterword; Notes; Works cited; Index |
| Summary |
This groundbreaking book makes sense of the complexities and dynamics of post-colonial politics, illustrating how post-colonial theory has marginalised a huge part of its constituency, namely Africa.Politics and Post-Colonial Theory traces how African identity has been constituted and reconstituted by examining issues such as:* negritude* the rise of nationalism* decolonisation.The book also questions how helpful post-colonial analysis can be in understanding the complexities which define institutions including:* the nation-state* civil society* human r |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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English |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134559060 (electronic bk.) |
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020318789X |
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0415237467 |
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0415247500 |
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9780203187890 |
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9780415237468 |
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9780415247504 |
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